Amazon.com: St. Boniface and the Little Fir Tree

Amazon.com: The Letters of St. Boniface
St. Boniface, the early eighth-century English cleric who became known as “Apostle to the Germans,” was an important agent in the conversion of the North German tribes from paganism to Christianity…

NewAdvent.org: St. Boniface
Apostle of Germany, date of birth unknown; martyred 5 June, 755 (754); emblems: the oak, axe, book, fox, scourge, fountain, raven, sword. He was a native of England, though some authorities have cl…

Catholic.org: St. Boniface of Mainz
Winfrith had expected to return to England from Friesland (in what is now Holland) in triumph. He had left the land where he was a respected scholar, teacher, and priest because he was convinced he…

EWTN.com: SAINT BONIFACE MARTYR, APOSTLE OF GERMANY—680-754 A.D. Feast: June 5
Isolated missionary groups had penetrated central Germany in earlier times, but not until the eighth century was there a systematic effort to Christianize the vast pagan wilderness. To the English …

Americancatholic.org: Saint Boniface
Boniface, known as the apostle of the Germans, was an English Benedictine monk who gave up being elected abbot to devote his life to the conversion of the Germanic tribes. Two characteristics stand…

Wikipedia.org: Saint Boniface
Saint Boniface (Latin: Bonifatius) (c. 675? – 5 June 754), born Winfrid, Wynfrith, or Wynfryth in the kingdom of Wessex in Anglo-Saxon England, was a leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to th…